Restructuring Assistant Manager – North

Job description

KPMG’s North Restructuring team are looking for an Assistant Manager to join their team.
The team of trusted advisors offer a full range of services to stressed and distressed businesses, ranging from formal insolvency through to advising profitable businesses on enhancing value and solving issues.
The North Restructuring team, where the vacancies exist, is made up of approximately 80 people, led by a team of three partners and 12 directors.
The team delivers a blend of stakeholder / lender side advisory work, company side advisory and formal insolvency. The work services a full spectrum of businesses from small owner managed concerns through to large multinationals and also a wide range of work with public sector organisations, all typically experiencing some form of stress or distress. The region covered by the team extends across the North West and North East.
The team is not generally aligned to specific sectors and specialisms, however there are individuals with significant experience in certain areas and situations and we would welcome this in applicants. In particular, we would welcome individuals with advanced Excel and modelling experience to support on related engagements. Applicants however should expect to work across all sectors as situations and client demand.

We are currently looking for an Assistant Manager to join the team in Leeds. Where possible, assignments will be resourced to suit individuals’ base locations with a primary focus therefore for these roles being Yorkshire and the North East, but the nature and unpredictability of our work will mean that some travel (and possible international working) will be required.
The role will involve working across a range of assignment types as highlighted above, and applicants should be ready to work in dynamic, flexible and fast moving environments.

Key Responsibilities:

- Work alongside case managers and engagement leaders to provide support on restructuring or insolvency assignments.
- Rapid progression to a project management role, taking ownership of the key aspects of cases or managing discreet aspects of larger assignments.
- Support the case manager’s production of reports/output on advisory/restructuring projects and all aspects of an insolvency assignment (typically involving trading, liaising with creditors and key stakeholders and sale of business)
- Participating in marketing events, together with research and targeting of new client opportunities and development of client proposals. This will include the development of internal and external contacts.


Key skills and competencies required:

- Strong commercial and business acumen
- Ability to work innovatively and ‘self start’
- Corporate insolvency would be beneficial
- Experience with Excel and in data modelling would be very advantageous as this role will include work on our advisory projects.
- Ideally some corporate side advisory experience in a Restructuring context (either advising to businesses or through other work undertaken in / with corporates)
- Desire to further build wide advisory and insolvency skillsets and develop knowledge of all Restructuring offerings
- Ability to communicate well across a range of operational and financial staff at all levels. This is also often in challenging circumstances given the financial positions of the organisations we typically work with.
- Willingness to embrace work across all sectors and potentially undertake some travel.